Articles

James Schuyler in the Spotlight
BY Eric Ziegenhagen
A New York School poet with a flair for the dramatic.

Philip Larkin: “An Arundel Tomb”
BY Jeremy Axelrod
Does a notoriously grumpy poet believe in everlasting love?

The Poetry of Autumn
BY Annie Finch
Forget spring. Fall is the season for poetry.

You've Come a Long Way, Baby
BY Eileen Myles, CA Conrad
Human. Animal. Gay. Straight. Poetry.

Ten Poems I Love to Teach
BY Eric Selinger
Surefire poetry hits for the classroom and beyond.

Twice-Told Tales
BY Tess Taylor
Laurie Sheck and Dan Beachy-Quick re-write the classics.

Lives of the Poets: Laura Jensen
BY Heidi Broadhead
Tacoma, Washington's reclusive genius.

Nicholson Baker Talks Poetry
BY Jesse Nathan
Can a novel capture contemporary poetry's (dour, curmudgeonly) zeitgeist?

In Search of the Auden Martini
BY Rosie Schaap
How to make a cocktail beautiful, humanizing, and good.

Lives of the Poets: Rodrigo Toscano
BY Jason Boog
Meet the radical.

Keats in Space
BY Molly Young
The Romantics fused poetry and science. Is there any hope for a revival?

Raymond Danowski Has Your Chapbook
BY Jenny Jarvie
Amassing the world's largest collection of 20th century poetry was easy. Finding a home for it was a different story.

Beat America
BY Aram Saroyan
What did we learn from Ted Berrigan, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg?

The Pure Products of America Go Crazy
BY Ed Park
The poetry of David Berman's drawings.

The Body Mutiny
BY Maria McLeod
In this wide-ranging conversation, Lucia Perillo talks about killing coyotes, virtual readings, and what it's like to be a "disabled poet."

Louise Bogan: “A Tale”
BY Caitlin Kimball
Was her first poem her best?

A Fistful of Father's Day Poems
BY The Editors
Works about fatherhood by classic and contemporary poets.

Langston Hughes and the Broadway Blues
BY Franklin Bruno
A 1957 musical comedy reveals a different side of the Harlem Renaissance bard.

From Sago to Xinjiang
BY Justin Hopper
Mark Nowak's documentary poetry shines a light on the coal industry.

Thom Gunn: “From the Wave”
BY Joshua Weiner
Touch, risk, trust, improvisation—“the intellect as powerhouse of love.”